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Fiscal Cliff: House Republican Proposal Abandons Core Principles, Gains Little
The Heritage Foundation ^ | 12/3/2012 | Alison Acosta Fraser and J.D. Foster, Ph.D.

Posted on 12/04/2012 4:41:20 PM PST by GVnana

The House Republican leadership has offered a substantive counteroffer to President Obama’s frivolous fiscal cliff proposal of last week. At first blush, it appears little more than categorical, pre-emptive capitulation.

To be fair, the details of the Republican proposal are extraordinarily vague. Nor is much clarity or comfort gained from the three-page accompanying letter sent to the President and signed by Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), and three other senior members of the House Republican leadership.

Much can and likely will come out in the days ahead clarifying what a few figures and labels on a single sheet of paper mean. One can only hope the additional clarity substantially improves the picture. However, it is very difficult to be hopeful.

The fiscal cliff contrived by President Obama and the Congress over the past two years creates a tremendous opportunity for Republicans and Democrats alike to come together on some simple yet profound, widely understood and commonsense reforms to the real drivers of the nation’s fiscal troubles—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Beyond disappointing, the House Republican counteroffer appears at best to suggest incremental tweaks to these programs. Without real entitlement reform—not just spending cuts—we will never fix the underlying problem

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Oh my. :(
1 posted on 12/04/2012 4:41:25 PM PST by GVnana
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To: GVnana

Actually the Goverment gains. That’s about it.


2 posted on 12/04/2012 4:50:49 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: GVnana

Fine then - Just vote “Present” and get on with it.....

These ‘kids’ want the run of the house...
Mom’s on Strike


3 posted on 12/04/2012 4:54:43 PM PST by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: GVnana

Um, what core principles?


4 posted on 12/04/2012 5:07:37 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: GVnana

Why doesn’t Boehner get two tax bills passed: one keeps the Bush tax rates for the lower brackets which Obama says he’ll sign and the other to keep the Bush rates for the upper brackets which Obama says he can’t possibly allow. Get both bills over to the Senate then leave and any tax increases will be totally on the rat party.

That’s probably about the best the hapless pubbies can hope for.


5 posted on 12/04/2012 5:10:03 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: chris37

Um, what core principles?

Hey! That was my line!


6 posted on 12/04/2012 5:12:23 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Any one who has any core principles has been shut out
or is being shut out of the republican party.

Never seen anything like it.


7 posted on 12/04/2012 5:14:37 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: GVnana

Obama, like most people who do not know what they are doing, has gone from one extreme to another.

in prior negotiations he conceded things early that he didn’t have to.

Now, his negotiating stance seems to start with republicans having to commit anatomically impossible acts!

i do think his main political goal (and possibly only goal) is to get the top marginal rate raised. in that case, he can get that by going over the fiscal cliff, and that is where i think we are going.

So, this weak proposal from Boehner likely won’t matter. I think by the time that we go over the cliff, it will be obvious that obama did it.


8 posted on 12/04/2012 5:15:35 PM PST by Reverend Wright (1990 Budget Agreement: learn from other's mistakes)
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To: GVnana
Talk about "burying the lede"...

Who knew the House Republicans had "core principles" to "abandon?"

9 posted on 12/04/2012 5:18:27 PM PST by LaybackLenny (Bibi Netanyahu: de facto "Leader of the Free World)
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To: tet68

Heh :D


10 posted on 12/04/2012 5:19:10 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: GVnana

The House Republicans are playing with fire. They are being set up to do further damage not only to the republic but to the republican party as well. They have no business being weak on these issues since they have the majority control. If they want to solve issues, put real meaningful cuts and solutions in the game. They always have one thing in mind-keeping their jobs by not allowing the media to hurt them politically. They are sheltered up in Washington.

The government is broken due to the people up there. Capitalism has not been defended well by those on our side. It’s becoming crazy like to see so much corruption occur and no one follows up with the rule of law. My son seems to not care/oh, he cares but because the government is broken, he sees no reforms..so that generation will go along more-so than we do. It’s bad to see when you have a great message of reform and the people up there continue to please the media. In the future, we need to find a trusting reformer who will promise to bring up term limits legislation and go after the crony capitalism and cut the spending and bring government back in control and on side of the people. We need a revolution at the ballot box next time with the right reformer. Two choices-same old stuff or do something out of the box. Tea Party begin searching for real reformers. Just do that. Imo.


11 posted on 12/04/2012 5:24:05 PM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt. Our nation's foundation is under attack.)
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To: GVnana

I wonder if it has occurred to the Speaker and the Majority Leader that they would not be Speaker and Majority Leader but for the guys they are busily throwing down the stairs (i.e., the TEA Party members elected in 2010).


12 posted on 12/04/2012 5:35:07 PM PST by Arm_Bears (The MSM lies about conservatives; and it lies about liberals.)
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To: Arm_Bears

With any luck, by 2016, no one will remember who the “Republican Party” was. It will be alongside the Whigs in the history books as a failed political party everyone make jokes about.


13 posted on 12/04/2012 5:51:53 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: libertarian27
Fine then - Just vote “Present” and get on with it.....

Nope -- I would hope and expect, and positively want, the Tea Party caucus to vote en bloc against any capitulation.

14 posted on 12/04/2012 9:49:06 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: GVnana

RINOs have principles?


15 posted on 12/05/2012 9:00:08 AM PST by Paladin2
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